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To: StanX Long who wrote (64298)	6/11/2002 2:04:08 AM
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"OT" Taiwan president urges heightened military alert over China threat Monday June 10, 11:38 AM sg.news.yahoo.com President Chen Shui-bian has urged the armed forces to heighten their alertness against China's military expansion which, he said, posed a great threat to Taiwan's survival. "Athough the government has hoped to peacefully resolve cross-strait disputes through political negotiations and positive interaction, communist China has never abandoned its attempt to invade Taiwan," Chen said on Monday. Threats to take Taiwan by force, based on Beijing's claim that the island was part of China's territory and buoyed by nationalism, "pose the greatest danger to our country's survival and development," Chen told a seminar of senior military officers. "We must heighten alertness as communist China is strengthening its military combat capibilities" with skyrocketing defence budgets, he said. Chen pledged increased allocations for advanced weaponry for Taiwan's military, "not for an arms race against communist China but to maintain military equillibrium to effectively prevent war and deter invasion."